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Swainsona canescens

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Swainsona canescens (Benth.) F.Muell.

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Cyclogyne canescens Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Swainsona canescens (Benth.) F.Muell. var. canescens (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Swainsona canescens var. horniana (Tate ex J.M.Black) J.M.Black (taxonomic synonym)
  • Swainsona horniana Tate ex J.M.Black (taxonomic synonym)
  • Swainsonia canescens F.Muell. (orthographic variant)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA, NSW

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, NT eFlora, SA eFlora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: Crowley_2007 (2), Draper_2023 (3), Jurado_1991 (6), Jurado_1992 (3), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_5 (1), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (8), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (4), SAH_2022 (6), SAH_2023 (17), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Sweedman_2006 (4), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 34 traits from 74 records in 19 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fire response
  • resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (3) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 15 mm (10-20 mm) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (4) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (1) [sources: Sjostrom_2006]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 90 mm2 (90-90 mm2) [sources: Jurado_1991]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 29 mm (5-120 mm) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 10 mm (5-15 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblong (1); obovate (2); widely_elliptical (1) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (3) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (3) [sources: NTH_2023; SAH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (6) [sources: Jurado_1991; NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (5) [sources: NTH_2022; SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (1); erect (1); prostrate (1); spreading (1) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): barochory (3); zoochory (1) [sources: Draper_2023; Jurado_1991; Kew_2019_5]
  • dispersers (categorical): abiotic (1); animals (1); passive (1) [sources: Draper_2023]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnyyyyyynnnn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 1.89 mg (1.7-2.07 mg) [sources: Jurado_1991; Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 2 mm (2-2 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
  • seed_shape (categorical): reniform (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 0.38 m (0.15-0.6 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
SAH_20231017S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
NTH_202368D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Jurado_199166E. Jurado. “Diaspore weight, dispersal, growth form and perenniality of central Australian plants”. Journal of Ecology 79 (1991), pp. 811-828.
SAH_202246S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/.
RussellSmith_201244J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
Sjostrom_200644A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
Sweedman_200624L. Sweedman and D. Merritt. Australian Seeds: A Guide to Their Collection, Identification, and Biology. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 9780643094079.
WAH_2022_244Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Draper_202333J. T. Draper, S. Delean, J. G. Conran, P. Weinstein, and B. S. Simpson. “Life-history characteristics and climate correlates of dioecious plant species in central southern Australia”. Australian Journal of Botany unknown.unknown (2023), p. unknown. doi: 10.1071/BT22110.
Jurado_199213E. Jurado and M. Westoby. “Germination biology of selected central Australian plants”. Austral Ecology 17.3 (1992), pp. 341-348. doi: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.1992.tb00816.x.
NTH_202233D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_201122C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
WAH_2023_212Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_111Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_511Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed dispersal data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
WAH_199811Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.